Device for supporting containers.



A. J. DEGENFELDER. DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING CONTAINERS.

APPLICATION FILED 313.21, 191s.

1;O77,1 90, Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

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' I To-alliohbm it moi concern Be it known-that I, Anois J. DEGEN-FEEDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in thecounty of Erie and .State of NewgYork, have invented new and guseful'Improvements in Devices for Supporting Containers, of which thefollowing is ajspecification;

. An objectof the invention is to provide a device for "supportingcontainers, and the invention'resides more particularly in a devicewhich can be 'attachedto a chair or the "like andwhich adjustablysupports a conin a position which will permit of readily adjusting thenursing bottle into feeding position so that the party sitting in thechair upon which the device is mounted need not hold the bottle in thedesired position.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, inwhich similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in allthe views, and in which:

Figure 1' is a view of a chair showing my device applied thereto; Fig. 2is a side elevation, showing the holder body in vertical position; Fig.8 is a perspective view of a modified form of my device, parts beingbroken away to disclose the underlying structure; and Fig. 4 is anenlarged fragmentary side elevation of the rod disclosed in Fig. 3, onesection of which is shown in elevation and the other section of which isshown in sectional lines.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide a supporting member10 including a block 11 having a groove 12 adapted to receive therein anupright 18 of a chair 14:, a stirrup 15 being arranged to encircle theupright 13 and slidably pass through the block 11 as shown. with one endof the stirrup threaded and projecting beyond the opposite side of theblock to receive a thumb nut' 16 which, when tightened up on thementioned end of the stirrup, will secure the stirrup rigidly to theblock and thus Specification of Letters Patent. 3 Application filedFebruary 21, 1913. SeriaLNo. 749,893.

'ing member 10, the said fragmentary perspective- DEVICE FOR SUPORTINGCONTAINERS.

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rigidly support the supporting member 10 on the upright 13. I 1

A bracket 17' is swiveled on the supportcrank like shape, with "thelower. end mounted to turn inthe block ll'of th'e 'supporting member,and adjustably supported" o-n-the upper end of the bracket 17 by meansof a suitable bracket having; a I

bearing- 18 controlled: by fap.

thumb nut 19, is a rod 20 terminatingj'at' one end in a knuckle member21 on whichf;

is mounted to swing a connecting member" 22 having mounted to swing onan end there-Z body 23, a threaded screw may.

of a holder I 24: being passed through ends of theholderj body 23 and anendof the connecting mem' ber 22 and provided with a thumb nut- ,25

whereby the holder body 23 can besecuredin a rigid position with respectto the con- I 22 or can be dj m necting member tively thereto. Theholder body 23 comprises more particularly a ribbon-like frame 27, theends of which have pivotal connection with the screw rod 24, the medialportion of the frame being curved to encircle a container 28. Now inorder to rigidly secure the container in the holder body a screw rod 30is passed transversely through the ends of the frame, a suitable spring31] being interposed between the ends of the frame and encircling thescrew rod as shown, the screw rod 30 which, when screwed up,

will tend to draw the ends of the frame 27 4 together and clamp thecontainer to the medial portion of the frame, thus rigidly' supportingthe container on the holder body.

It will now be apparent that with the device described the holder bodycan be turned or swung into any desired position so that the containerwill be either in an upright or in a tilted position and the distance ofthe holder body from the upright of the chair 14 can be increased ordecreased through the medium of the bearing 18 and thumb nut 19, asexplained heretofore.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I disclose a modified form of my device and in which,in place ofthe straight solid rod 20, I provide a rod 33 consisting of asolid section 33* anda-tubular section 33", with the tubular sectionterminating at the inner end in a reduced shank Sl IIlOllIltGCl to turnin the plug 11 of the'supporting member 10, the outer end of with athumb nut 32 mounted on the solid section 33 having pivotal connectionwith the connecting member 22. inner end of the solid section 1sslidaole 1n the tubular section 33 as shown in Fig,

. 4, and the outer end of the tubular section is reduced to provide athreaded portion 33 on Wl11Cll-,-1S mounted to turn a not 33 Now whenthe lock nut is unthreaded from the portion 33 it will be apparent thatthe solid section 33* ican be adjusted with respect to thetu-bular'section 38 and when it IS de-v sired to secure the solidsection 33 rigidly with respect to the tubular section 33 the nut 33 isscrewed up on the threaded portion 33, thus clamping the threadedportion with respect to the solid section 38 It will,

therefore, be apparent that an adjustmentis provided between the solidsection 33 and the tubular section 33 of the rod 33 so that the lengthof the rod can be readily adjusted in order to provide a device whichwill be applicable to chairs and other similar furni-- ture of difierentsizes.

It will be understood that I do not limit myself to the particularconstruction disclosed herein and that, various slight qawmshe changesmay be made Without departing from the spirit of the invention, thescope of which is defined in the appended claim. Having thus describedmy invention, 1 claim:

in a device for supporting containers, the

ALOIS J. DEGENFELDER.

\Vitnesses: I

L. G. THOMPSON, L. B. BUFFINGTON.

combination with a supporting member, of

